To:S. Y. CHUTSKAYEV

Comrade Chutskayev, Siberian Revolutionary Committee

Written:Written on March 6, 1922Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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Iam sending youM. Bagayev’sletter. Have a check
carried out of the facts given in his letter, and an
investigation of the reasons for the establishment of rates out
of all proportion to the crop, meting out punishment to
those guilty of abusing power in the collection of the tax
in kind and the harassment of the peasants, and also show
the picture of tax collection in other volosts of
Novonikolayevsk Gubernia.

Themost vigorous steps have to be taken for the full
provision of seeds to the areas which have suffered from
the wrongful collection of the tax in kind.

Writeme about
execution.[1]

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Inreply to this letter, which was sent to Novonikolayevsk (now    

Novosibirsk) on March 6, 1922, S. Y. Chutskayev, Chairman ofthe Siberian Revolutionary Committee, on March 13, reported         

to Lenin by direct wire that an inquiry had been appointed into     

the abuses during the tax in kind collections in Novonikolayevsk    

Gubernia, and that its results would be reported later.

Chutskayevsubsequently informed the C.P.C. that the facts      

staled in M. A. Bagayev’s letter were true and that a number    

of food agents had been committed for trial.